The Project that I was planning on writing about had to do with putting a gender of 'cybering' of the internet. Should it be gendered? If so, which gender? How is it gendered already? Will it ever have a gender? Those are just some of the questions in my argumentative essay that I would like to cover from our readings so far. If anyone has a better direction or less broad idea I would be grateful for any suggestions.
It seems to me that this is a controversy of the internet, because we name our vehicles male or female names and just about anything else we put a masculine or feminine nature to them, even our plants! The environments that we use have selective uses so maybe we should put a gender to each of the uses in cyberspace and the context of the internet. In my opinion, it does not have one as of yet and I would like to research this further to see if it has.
Well, that is about it.
I think you raise a valid point there, we named items like our cars and even plants, but do we do this because as a culture that is what we have been thought to do, or even if you think about it, we preferred to give things a sex because they are easier to relate to, and our language doesn't allow us to name everything it, we usually use gender. So is it a result of our culture and our language or does our language dictated how we will react as a culture.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I made any sense but I just thought I put my two cents in. I think you are in the right track I wish you luck with this.
I cannot tell by this what you are proposing to do. I don't understand what you are saying.
ReplyDeleteFrom the assignment sheet, some of the general rules for the paper were:
* You must link at least two very general topics (ex: digital divide and the concept of community (virtual or otherwise), gaming and gender representations, personal representation and Internet activism, etc). You're not limited to two, but two is plenty.
* You must include secondary research that both supports and refutes your argument. Including the naysayer's point of view and subsequently arguing why the naysayer is wrong, is as important to making and supporting your argument as including a bunch of research that supports what you're saying.
* The specific rule of most importance is that you must make an original argument with your work. You must have a thesis that includes with it the "so what" or "who cares" aspect of your argument, and that "so what" or "who cares" part of the analysis must be clear throughout your essay.
Also from the assignment sheet, Step #2 says that for this assignment you should "write a paragraph or two that describes exactly what you plan to do, what you plan to argue, and how (in general) you plan to support your argument. Also, indicate why you want to pursue this topic."
Putting those things together, your proposal should have included, simply, what you plan to do (including which general topics from the course that you are going to link together) -- this means details and some depth -- what you plan to argue (this could include the argument or the research question in advance of the argument, with an hypothesis of the argument you potentially foresee), and how you plan to support the argument (which theories do you see yourself using on either side of your argument, etc).
All of those elements should be present in blog #9, yet with even more depth than I expected for blog #8, since you will have annotated sources and know how you will be using them in your argument.